Abstract: The invention relates to a technical sodium purification method consisting of placing liquid sodium in contact at a temperature greater than or equal to 150° C., inside a static mixer, with an inert gas stream with respect to the sodium containing the stoechiometric quantity of water vapour required to oxidise calcium so as to lower its content to the desired content, and then separating the purified sodium from the inert gas, and the hydrogen and lime produced by the reaction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a technical sodium purification method consisting of placing liquid sodium in contact at a temperature greater than or equal to 150° C., inside a static mixer, with an inert gas stream with respect to the sodium containing the stoechiometric quantity of water vapour required to oxidise calcium so as to lower its content to the desired content, and then separating the purified sodium from the inert gas, and the hydrogen and lime produced by the reaction.

Abstract: A method for purifying liquid metal heat exchange fluids uses a contacting drum in combination with purifiers to control metal hydride precipitation in a process with high hydrogen permeation. The contacting drum receives a slip stream of a circulating liquid metal stream and removes hydrogen from dissolved hydride by providing a high interfacial surface area and sufficient temperature for hydride decomposition under vacuum conditions. The liquid metal with a reduced hydride level may be returned to the circulating heat exchange stream or undergo further purification by hydride precipitation and filtration in a cold trap. The drum may be integrated with the cold traps to decompose re-dissolved hydride from a regenerant stream that dissolves precipitated hydride from the cold traps.

Abstract: Solar process for the production of volatile elemental zinc, sodium, and potassium by reacting their oxides with a reducing metallic agent selected from Fe, Sn, Ni, Co and Mn, and in a second step, reacting carbon or hydrogen with the oxide of said reducing metallic agent so as to reduce it back to its metallic form.

Abstract: A process for recovering Na from a spent NaS cell, includes the steps of forming an opening in a spent NaS cell, flowing down molten Na from an interior of the NaS cell through the opening in a heating oil vessel, passing the molten Na through a filter placed in the heating oil vessel to remove metallic powder, collecting the molten Na in a bottom portion of the heating oil vessel by utilizing a difference in specific gravity between the molten Na and an oil, and taking out the Na from an outer side of the filter.

Abstract: A method for the handling of alkali metals includes using a protective gas which behaves inertly with regard to the alkali metal within a defined temperature range, and which reacts with the alkali metal to form solid reaction products outside this temperature range.

Abstract: A method for operating a converter on the basis of a direct observation of the slag-forming conditions in a vessel interior.A device for observing the vessel-interior light is disposed in a throughhole extending through the side wall of a top-blowing or top- and bottom-blowing converter to reach the vessel interior. The converter operation can be carried out at a high accuracy of the slag-amount control on the basis of this observation.

Abstract: A steelmaking method which enables accurate prediction of the split of top-injected oxygen between that which reacts with the bath and that which reacts with carbon monoxide above the bath.

Abstract: A steel-making process in a converter, which includes using a carbon monoxide gas as an agitating gas supplied from a position lower than molten metal bath level.